![]() ![]() His family has struggled mightily-that buckle's luck has never seemed transferable-but old Jubal hopes the luck might extend, in one last moment of crisis, to his namesake grandson, a toddler. Another standout is "The Belt," about an octogenarian Civil War veteran and his talisman, the lucky brass buckle that saved him in battle. In the excellent "Flight," for example, Stacy, a wounded, justice-minded young park ranger, determines that she'll have the better of a local who keeps tauntingly poaching trout. Rash is expert at revealing the sword of vengeance's double edge-how honed it is, how it cuts whomever wields it. Several pieces collected here-mostly set in western North Carolina from the Civil War to the present-center on revenge that wants to see itself as righteous. Though Serena has received the lion's share of attention, the short story has always been Rash's best genre. Rash's latest is a collection of 10 stories anchored by a novella featuring the ruthless Serena Pemberton of his best-known novel, Serena (2008), as she returns to the U.S. ![]()
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